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Being Gladwelled
Jessica Wells Cantiello wonders if she should encourage students to write in the compelling, but manipulating, style of a certain New Yorker writer.
Frye Revived
The pre-eminent literary theorist of the 1960s and '70s went out fashion -- yet never really went away. Scott McLemee looks into the afterlife of an original.
The Real Change Agents
To reform community colleges, you need to reach below the presidential level, writes James Jacobs.
Treadmill to Oblivion
An anonymous instructor describes 25 years working as an adjunct.
Fight Global Poverty
Current and former college presidents have a duty, writes Nannerl O. Keohane.
Commencement Day
Matthew McConaughey? Seriously? Wouldn't the money be better spent on learning how to travel in time, as in Interstellar? Rob Zaretsky wonders.
Thinking Different(ly) About University Presses
Lynn U organizes its faculty-created textbook initiative into a digital press. But can a university press survive on Apple's electronic textbooks alone?
Lessons to Share
The five superintendents of federal service academies discuss how their institutions -- which faced scrutiny over sexual assault before many other colleges attracted such attention -- have responded to the issue.